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| “ | Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray. | „ |
| ~ Euron to Aeron, the night before the kingsmoot. |
| “ | It was me who taught you how to pray, little brother. Have you forgotten? I would visit your bedchamber at night when I had too much to drink. You shared a room with Urrigon high up in the Sea Tower. I could hear you praying from outside the door. I always wondered: Were you praying that I would choose you or that I would pass you by? | „ |
| ~ Euron taunting Aeron. |
| “ | I am the storm, my lord. The first and the last! | „ |
| ~ Euron Greyjoy, to Rodrik Harlaw |
King Euron III Greyjoy, also known as Crow's Eye, is one of the main antagonists in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series by George R.R. Martin. He is the younger brother of King Balon, the older brother of Victarion, Urrigon, and Aeron, and the captain of the pirate ship The Silence. During the Kingsmoot, Euron promises to conquer Westeros for the Ironborn, but in reality, he only cares for himself. He believes he can become a God through blood magic.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- Throughout his three years of exile, he became a highly feared pirate and raider across many parts of the known world by taking the lives of hundreds of people, raping countless women, pillaging numerous settlements from diverse cultures, and enslaving many people throughout the seas and coasts of Essos, the Summer Islands, and possibly Sothoryos.
- It is also likely he already had a dreaded reputation before exile, as he already used to sail around the world and raid civilizations long before he was exiled, as shown by his many bastard children he fathered from women of many different cultures, who are old enough to serve him aboard his ship.
- Although the majority of the captains and kings of the Iron Islands admire Euron for practicing the Old Way and his infamous reputation as a pirate, sailor, and outlaw outside Westeros, it is made blatant that Euron does not really care about the Old Way and the traditional Ironborn culture and that rather than practicing them, the only thing he does is destroy, for the pleasure of destroying.
- He regularly cuts out all of his crewmembers' tongues for no discernible reason, aside from hiding his secrets aboard his galley, the Silence.
- He admitted that he has absolutely no love for his own various bastard, half-ironborn "mongrel" sons who serve him on his ship, coldly stating that his own children are as precious to him as his own feces. The only "kindness" he did for them was allowing them to keep their tongues, serve aboard his ship as non-mutes, and teach them the common tongue, not out of paternal love. He views his children as disposable pawns who assist him in his villainous deeds.
- Euron's gathering of artifacts and hinted practices of the dark arts are all aimed at the goal of ascending to Godhood, and he will stop at nothing to achieve it, even if thousands die or suffer.
- It's heavily implied that Euron desires an apocalyptic scenario where lands are reduced to "charnel pits" so he can rise as a God, and Aeron's prophetic visions portray Euron as a half-man, half-Kraken creature on a throne where Gods of all religions are impaled, and before him an orgy of blood takes place.
Background[]
- Ever since he was young, he was responsible for various sadistic tragedies his family suffered from. He even murdered his half-brothers Harlon and Robin and raped his own younger brothers Aeron and Urrigon on a regular basis when the two were children.
- According to his nephew Theon and his own brother, Victarion, Euron never deviated from the Old Way of the Iron Islands, so it is most likely that the three years of exile were not the first time he left Westeros in ship to plunder in other lands, and that over the decades he has undertaken expeditions to foreign countries to raze, plunder, rape, and destroy with everything he could find.
- These actions also demonstrate an abhorrent lack of respect for the authority of his father, Quellon, who, throughout his life, tried to separate the Ironborn from the Old Way. This shows that Euron never cared much for his father or his ideas of a better future for the Iron Islands, and that all he wanted was to watch the world burn. While his brothers also follow the Old Way and supported undoing Quellon's reforms, they still displayed much respect for him as a man, despite not sharing his beliefs.
- Engaging in the Old Way, he and his brothers advocated for the Reach during Robert's Rebellion, convincing his father to attack royalist lands around the river Mander.
- He helped Balon Greyjoy instigate a rebellion by orchestrating the burning of the Lannister fleet at Lannisport, which was carried on by his brother Victarion, which led to numerous raids on the western coast of Westeros. Even before and after the war, he often went raiding.
- He seduced and possibly raped Victarion's third wife, impregnating her and later remorselessly bragging about it to Victarion, which led to the woman's death at the hands of her own husband and to Euron's own banishment by Balon's order, to prevent bloodshed between the brothers.
- Although George Martin has confirmed in a semi-canonical source that the relationship between the two was a consensual affair, that does not make Euron's act any less criminal, since he surely slept with Victarion's wife simply to humiliate him instead of out of feeling something for her. In addition, he does not seem to feel any type of grief for her death or that of his unborn child, demonstrating his lack of empathy.
- He disemboweled a Myrish wizard alive after he got tired of his service. He claims to have once held a dragon's egg; wizard had sworn he could hatch it if Euron gave him a year of time and paid him the gold that he required to do it. Although the wizard was likely not capable of hatching the egg, even if he might have genuinely tried, Euron killed him out of boredom with his constant excuses, while the dying wizard pointed out that it hadn't been a year yet. Whether this story is true is unknown, as Euron is an unreliable narrator.
A Storm of Swords[]
- During the War of the Five Kings, he had a Faceless Man throw his older brother and former liege King Balon off of a bridge to usurp the Iron Islands.
- After assuming the rule of Pyke and proclaiming himself the new King of the Iron Islands, he drowned Lord Sawane Botley in a cask of seawater for objecting to such a claim.
A Feast for Crows[]
- Kidnapped countless priests and sorcerers and had them horrifically tortured, mutilated, and starved by the dozen.
- Notably, he has ripped out the tongues of Septons, burned a red priest of R'hllor beyond all recognition and left him to die, starved warlocks to the point of madness, cut off a warlock's legs, and forced the warlocks to cannibalize one of their own after Euron killed him.
- He promised a brutal conquest of Westeros and to bring back the older and more ruthless traditions of the Ironborn after winning the Kingsmoot, acquiring several artifacts and sources of dark magic, one of which is a dragon horn that can bind dragons to his will when blown.
- Knowing of Queen Daenerys Targaryen's dragons, he plans to steal them from her and use them to unleash fire on Westeros.
- Upon being elected King of the Iron Islands, he ruled with an iron fist by violently punishing his rivals.
- This includes executing Lord Baelor Blacktyde for opposing his reign, cutting him into seven pieces as a spiteful mockery of his beliefs in the Faith of the Seven, kidnapping his brother Aeron Damphair, and rewarding men he does not trust with land he knows they cannot successfully hold, dooming them to fall to Iron Throne loyalists.
- He pillaged numerous coastal and river settlements across the Reach, most notably the Arbor, slaughtering countless people and humiliating the whole noble family of House Hewett by having all its female family members stripped naked, humiliated, and abused in front of the many laughing ironborn attendants and the girls' own family lord, while he was forced to watch tied up on his own chair.
- Euron did not even spare the youngest girls from this, including a 10-year-old girl who cried at the humiliation. He raped women by the dozen and planned to sell innocents such as widows and children to any nations in Essos, such as Lys and Volantis, where slavery is legal.
The Winds of Winter[]
- He repeatedly tortured Aeron Damphair by forcing him to drink Shade of the Evening, a magic beverage that gives those who consume it psychedelic, prophetic visions of the past or future.
- Using the beverage to shatter Aeron's mind, Euron desires to break Aeron's faith in the Drowned God and force Aeron to worship him as a God. In the same torture sessions, he also cruelly mocks Aeron about how he used to sexually abuse him.
- He planned a massive blood sacrifice against the Redwyne-Hightower fleets by binding all of his captive priests to the prows of his ships, including Aeron. Falia Flowers, a young woman Euron had seduced and impregnated, is also bound next to Aeron. Despite her being strongly in love with Euron and having done nothing against him, as well as being heavily pregnant with his child, Euron ripped out her tongue and left her and the unborn child to die on the same prow as Aeron's.
- He and his companion steadily approached the richest and largest city in Westeros, Oldtown.
- Not only does this hint at Euron's intent to sack the city, but it is also implied that he desires to plunder secret sources of magic stored in Oldtown.
External Links[]
- Euron Greyjoy on the Villains Wiki.
- Euron Greyjoy on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
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